Insurance News: Barry Zalma Releases More Insurance Education Books on Amazon and Has Created a Locals Community of Insurance Education Videos.
Barry Zalma
Insurance News: Barry Zalma Releases More Insurance Education Books on Amazon
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After practicing insurance law for over five decades, Barry Zalma, an internationally recognized and award-winning insurance expert and author, is releasing multiple education books on Amazon.com. The publications are designed to inform claims people, special investigation unit investigators, coverage lawyers, plaintiffs’ bad faith lawyers, insurance management and the insurance buying public on insurance claims procedures and insurance fraud. Each resource leverages key insights and learnings from Zalma’s 55+ years of practical experience as a claims person and insurance coverage attorney.
Barry Zalma, Esq., CFE
To be an insurance professional requires continuous learning. That’s the motivation behind my writing; I have felt a need to share my experiences to help people in the industry learn how to properly handle claims and avoid accusations of the tort of bad faith.” See his latest interview for new adjusters at https://player.fm/series/daily-claims/episode-11-advice-for-new-and-aspiring-adjusters.
Visit Zalma’s Insurance Claims Library to view all publications that can be purchased through Amazon as Paperback and Kindle e-books. A selection of some of the books written by Barry Zalma that are available include:
“How to Acquire, Understand, and Make a Successful Claim on a Commercial Property Insurance Policy: Information Needed for Individuals and Insurance Pros to Deal With Commercial Property Insurance”
The Tort of Bad Faith
The Equitable Remedy of Rescission of Insurance
Insurance Fraud & Weapons to Defeat Insurance Fraud, Volume 1 & Volume 2, including full text insurance fraud decisions from the courts of appeal
The Compact Book on Adjusting Liability Claims, a handbook for the liability claims adjuster
The Compact Book on Adjusting Property Claims, a basic manual for the first party property claims adjuster
Zalma on Insurance Claims – a ten volume treatise.
Ethics for the Insurance Professional, the necessity of ethical behavior in the insurance business
Rescission of Insurance, what is needed to rescind an insurance policy, including full text appellate decisions regarding rescission
The Insurance Examination Under Oath, covering who, when, where, why and how to take an examination under oath.
Would you be interested in sharing this news with your readers, listeners or viewers or insurance claims employees? Please let me know if you would like more information or to arrange an interview with Barry Zalma or presentation of an Excellence in Claims Handling program.
Additional books by Zalma are available from Fastcase.com, Thomson Reuters and the American Bar Association. He has also published numerous articles, blogs, white papers, videos and education courses for insurance practitioners. Visit www.zalma.com and https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/ Locals.com https://zalmaoninsurance.locals.com/subscribe and substack.com for more information.
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In Michael Tillema, Kim Til- Lema v. Meridian Security Insurance Company, No. SA-24-CV-00661-JKP, United States District Court, W.D. Texas, San Antonio Division (October 7, 2025) Plaintiffs Michael Tillema and Kim Til-Lema claimed coverage from Meridian Security Insurance Company for benefits for alleged wind and hail damage from a storm on April 26, 2022.
Meridian Security Insurance Company denied the claim, citing inspection reports and weather data indicating no hail event occurred on the alleged date. Plaintiffs hired an independent contractor, who also found no hail within one mile of the property on the ...
Hertz Succesfully Refuses to Pay Alleged Fraudulent Health Care Providers
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Proactive Victim of Fraud Defeats Health Care Providers
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FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Plaintiff moved for a default judgment against defendants Alignment Chiropractic, P.C., and many other alleged health care providers.
Plaintiff also ...
Hertz Succesfully Refuses to Pay Alleged Fraudulent Health Care Providers
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Proactive Victim of Fraud Defeats Health Care Providers
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FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Plaintiff moved for a default judgment against defendants Alignment Chiropractic, P.C., and many other alleged health care providers.
Plaintiff also moved...
The Professional Claims Handler
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Posted on October 31, 2025 by Barry Zalma
An Insurance claims professionals should be a person who:
Can read and understand the insurance policies issued by the insurer.
Understands the promises made by the policy.
Understand their obligation, as an insurer’s claims staff, to fulfill the promises made.
Are competent investigators.
Have empathy and recognize the difference between empathy and sympathy.
Understand medicine relating to traumatic injuries and are sufficiently versed in tort law to deal with lawyers as equals.
Understand how to repair damage to real and personal property and the value of the repairs or the property.
Understand how to negotiate a fair and reasonable settlement with the insured that is fair and reasonable to both the insured and the insurer.
How to Create Claims Professionals
To avoid fraudulent claims, claims of breach of contract, bad faith, punitive damages, unresolved losses, and to make a profit, insurers ...
The History Behind the Creation of a Claims Handling Expert
The Insurance Industry Needs to Implement Excellence in Claims Handling or Fail
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This is a change from my normal blog postings. It is my attempt. in more than one post, to explain the need for professional claims representatives who comply with the basic custom and practice of the insurance industry. This statement of my philosophy on claims handling starts with my history as a claims adjuster, insurance defense and coverage lawyer and insurance claims handling expert.
My Training to be an Insurance Claims Adjuster
When I was discharged from the US Army in 1967 I was hired as an insurance adjuster trainee by a professional and well respected insurance company. The insurer took a chance on me because I had been an Army Intelligence Investigator for my three years in the military and could use that training and experience to be a basis to become a professional insurance adjuster.
I was initially sat at a desk reading a text-book on insurance ...
The History Behind the Creation of a Claims Handling Expert
The Insurance Industry Needs to Implement Excellence in Claims Handling or Fail
Post 5210
This is a change from my normal blog postings. It is my attempt. in more than one post, to explain the need for professional claims representatives who comply with the basic custom and practice of the insurance industry. This statement of my philosophy on claims handling starts with my history as a claims adjuster, insurance defense and coverage lawyer and insurance claims handling expert.
My Training to be an Insurance Claims Adjuster
When I was discharged from the US Army in 1967 I was hired as an insurance adjuster trainee by a professional and well respected insurance company. The insurer took a chance on me because I had been an Army Intelligence Investigator for my three years in the military and could use that training and experience to be a basis to become a professional insurance adjuster.
I was initially sat at a desk reading a text-book on insurance ...
